Mostly About Organized Crime

12/07/2016

Eleven suspected members from street gang 6 Mile Chedda Grove in Detroit, MI have been indicted on racketeering charges for their various alleged roles in trafficking drugs and murdering rivals as reported by the Detroit News: "the indictment draws heavily on social media to make its case, citing videos that members allegedly posted on YouTube and even the captions of photos uploaded to Facebook."

11/16/2016

Leonard Falzone, a one-time union boss for Laborers Local 210 in Buffalo, NY who was convicted in 1994 on racketeering charges for running a loanshark ring, has died at 81 as reported by The Buffalo News:

"The vestiges of what once was an infamous era of organized crime are dissipating with the deaths of people like Leonard Falzone," said one former reporter who covered organized crime. "You can't deny the fact that he was a reputed insider in the Buffalo organized-crime family."

11/10/2016

Nine suspected members of a Russian mob crew "with close ties to an underworld group in Eastern Europe known as Thieves in Law" have been busted pursuant to "a 10-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn Federal Court [which] charges them with racketeering, extortion, loansharking, marijuana trafficking and illegal gambling" as reported by the Daily News: "the Brooklyn mobsters operated in Coney Island and Brighton Beach, sources said," and "high-stakes poker games were set up at a building on Coney Island Ave. which from the outside appeared to be an auto leasing and private security business."

10/30/2016

Former assistant FBI director James Kallstrom has called out the Clintons as "a crime family" as reported by The Hill: "'The Clintons, that's a crime family, basically,' Kallstrom said. 'It's like organized crime. I mean the Clinton Foundation is a cesspool.'"